After having further thoughts on what I would like my portfolio piece to become, I have settled on the idea of a “hall of fame” of sorts. If resources and time allow it, I would like to make a small corridor with gold streamers lining the walls and paper-mache caricatures of celebrities dotted along the corridor. This would be supplemented with a sound work utilising multi-channel technology to disperse different sounds along the corridor in order to tell a story as the viewer walks through the hall of fame. The charicatures would have bizarre and distorted features but would still aim to replicate the essence of the celebrities, as in my drawings I mentioned in the last blog. Having full-body replicas of the celebrities would allow me to dive into further detail when making them.

This will probably be too much to make just for the prototype – for this I think I may just make one celebrity and focus more on experimenting with the multi-channel technology as I have never used it before and it will be a big learning curve for me.

I still need to spend more time considering the themes I want to address with this project – whether to go down the route of conspiracy theories or para-social relationships. Both are interesting to me but in order for the piece to remain focused I should choose just one.